Employment Development Department

California may have paid out nearly $10 billion in phony coronavirus unemployment claims — more than double the previous estimate — with some money going to organized crime in Russia, China and other countries.

At least 350,000 debit cards filled with money for unemployment benefits in California have been frozen because of suspected fraud

The California unemployment agency’s two call centers to field questions about jobless benefits had two major problems as millions of people sought help due to the pandemic: One had nobody on site to answer calls and the other had hundreds of untrained new hires who didn’t know how to help callers.

An East Bay woman is in the midst of an unemployment claim nightmare.

An East Bay woman is in the midst of an unemployment claim nightmare. Marianne Favro reports.

A San Diego man says a scammer used his information to collect unemployment checks — but the thing is: He never lost his job, and now he says the unemployment office isn’t helping.

Almost 500,000 public school jobs have been lost during the pandemic, according to Labor Department Statistics, but many California teachers say they are having unique challenges trying to get their unemployment benefits.

A University Heights man says California’s unemployment system is broken

Workers who suddenly find themselves jobless because of the pandemic are most likely eligible for unemployment insurance benefits.

Workers who suddenly find themselves jobless because of the pandemic are most likely eligible for unemployment insurance benefits. Consumer investigator Chris Chmura reports.

Officials say California’s unemployment rate fell to a new record low of 4% in September.

California’s unemployment rate held steady at 4.2% in June.

California’s jobless rate fell to 4.2 percent in May, with particularly low unemployment in the San Francisco Bay Area.

Nine restaurants around Contra Costa County have been issued administrative fines for allegedly failing to provide workers’ compensation insurance, prosecutors announced Tuesday.

California’s unemployment rate fell to 4.4 percent in January, the lowest figure since 1976.

California’s unemployment rate fell to 4.4 percent in January, the lowest figure since 1976.

California’s unemployment rate fell to 4.3 percent in December. The state Employment Development Department says that’s a new record low in records dating back to 1976, surpassing the record low of 4.6 percent set in November.

California’s unemployment rate fell to 4.7 percent in May, down from 4.8 percent a month earlier.

All but one of the nine Bay Area counties had unemployment rates in July below the statewide average, officials with the state’s Employment Development Department said Friday.

The number of people emerging from unemployment in California is making encouraging gains, according to statistics released Saturday by the state’s Employment Development Department.